# Prabhat Sharma

> Prabhat Sharma is the founder and CEO of OpenObserve, an open-source observability platform. A former AWS solutions architect specializing in containers and Kubernetes, he introduced the lightweight Zinc search engine in December 2021 and founded Zinc Labs in 2022. His public writing covers infrastructure design, open-source business models and the practical lessons of starting a company. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at OpenObserve
- **Organizations:** OpenObserve, Zinc Labs Inc., Amazon Web Services
- **Education:** Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies
- **Known for:** Created Zinc, a lightweight search engine introduced publicly in December 2021., Founded the company behind OpenObserve in 2022., ZincSearch announced a $3.6 million seed round in May 2022.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2022** — Worked at AWS as a solutions architect specializing in containers and Kubernetes.
- **2021-12** — Published the introduction to Zinc, his lightweight search engine, on December 11.
- **2022-04** — Documented starting Zinc Labs Inc. in an April 8 personal blog post.
- **2022-05** — ZincSearch announced a $3.6 million seed round led by Nexus Venture Partners.
- **2023-05** — Published the OpenObserve launch article on May 10.
- **2023-11** — OpenObserve changed from Apache 2.0 to AGPL 3.0 licensing.
- **2024** — Presented on high-performance observability at Civo Navigate Austin.
- **2025-04** — Reported OpenObserve passing 15,000 GitHub stars and 3,600 active deployments.
- **2026-04** — Announced a $10 million Series A and AI SRE, anomaly detection and LLM observability capabilities.
- **2026-06** — Appeared with Shani Shoham on Software Defined Talk episode 576.

## Achievements

- Created Zinc, a lightweight search engine introduced publicly in December 2021.
- Founded the company behind OpenObserve in 2022.
- ZincSearch announced a $3.6 million seed round in May 2022.
- OpenObserve passed 15,000 GitHub stars by April 28, 2025, according to his milestone post.
- Announced a $10 million Series A on April 28, 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — The official company About page, checked October 25, reports 9,000+ active deployments and 22.3k GitHub stars; these are company-reported figures.
- **2026-06** — Joined Shani Shoham and host Brandon Whichard for Software Defined Talk episode 576 on June 12.
- **2026-04** — Announced a $10 million Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners and Dell Technologies Capital, alongside new AI capabilities.
- **2026-03** — Discussed OpenObserve architecture and cloud infrastructure limits in a KubeCon interview published by Techzine on March 27.

## Links

- Website: https://prabhatsharma.in/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hiprabhat/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/hiprabhat
- GitHub: https://github.com/prabhatsharma

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Last updated: 2026-10-25